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Today's Topics:
1. Any CAERUS updates?? (Mark L. Hammond)
2. Re: Congrats to SpaceX (Bruce Robertson)
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:44:23 -0500
From: "Mark L. Hammond" <marklhammond@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Any CAERUS updates??
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I'm using the only set of TLE's I've seen so far, and have had to
automated--nothing copied yet.
Anybody hearing this bird or read any updates?
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Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:56:33 -0400
From: Bruce Robertson <ve9qrp@xxxxx.xxx>
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Congrats to SpaceX
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On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:54 PM, <G0MRF@xxx.xxx> wrote:
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> In a message dated 09/12/2010 13:37:06 GMT Standard Time,
> APBIDDLE@xxxxxx.xxx writes:
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> According to a report I saw from the NSS, they also deployed 4 ?CubeSats.
> Not a useful orbit for us, but a sign of good things to ?come.
>
> Alan
> WA4SCA
>
At the small satellites conference of the International Astronautical
Congress in Prague this year, Andrews Space's president gave details
about his new Spaceflight Services company, which aims to provide
retail pricing and service for small satellite launches.[1] For X
dollars, you get a date and place with your name on it, basically. The
eye-opener for me was that he was including launches in various
cubesat configurations all the way down to 1U, and in orbits up to
GTO. Some of this was arranged through a contract with SpaceX.
If I remember correctly, a 3U cubesat to GTO was under $800,000.
Obviously this is a huge technical challenge -- could we fit in a 1U
what would be necessary to go up to HEO, leaving 2U for our comms
hardware --, but imagine if an AMSAT organization could know that once
they'd raised and paid the $800,000, their bird would fly in, say, two
years. I think this would make raising the money in the first place a
much easier thing. (Even better, if they could tell their donors that
they have an insured launch and duplicate hardware!)
What this says to me is that the efforts being put into
miniaturization through Fox are finally putting us on the winning side
of the curve and provide us with further opportunities in the future,
maybe even opportunities in HEO.
[1] http://www.andrews-space.com/news.php?subsection=MzQw
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> Hi Alan.
>
> If they waited until the second stage had been removed from LEO, those
> cubesats would have had an apogee of 11,000km
>
> A very nice orbit......if it could be circularised to avoid the radiation
> belts.
>
> Thanks
>
> David ?G0MRF
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